Potential Trike Builder in Columbus, OH

[cheri703]

Hi, I'm looking at the StreetFox plans, and I am very interested in building one. Problem with that is a lack of welding experience and equipment. I would be very interested and grateful to find out if anyone might be willing to mentor a fledgling builder in this project. Just as a note, I'm a 23 yr old married female with a fairly decent mechanical skill set. If anyone has any suggestions for other options, I'd definitely be open to them.

Thanks!

-Cheri

[rickairmed]

Cheri we love making peaple mental um I mean mentoring peaple around here . I say go for it . We have several new members going through the fun of learning to weld and all of us started somewhere . I will admit thats about the only thing I havent been able to get The better half to try yet is welding otherwise if something needs done around the house and I am to slow she will try to tackle it and worst case is she makes it an imediate need for me to step in and help :D. She even changes her own oil now although I usually have to break the drain plug loose and retighten it when she is done :D. I started my first trike a while back look up in the strretfox forum for the Babystreet fox thread.

Rick

[cheri703]

Yeah, I change my own oil when feasible (we don't have a garage, so winter oil changes are usually done elsewhere), I built us a new bed frame/platform thing yesterday, and I have started volunteering at a local bike co-op fixing donated bikes to get them ready to sell. I'm still familiarizing myself with the bike stuff (tore down and rebuilt one when I was in middle school), but I'm getting there. I'm in love with the Ice Trice QNT, buuut it's would take a LOT more time to save up to buy one of those than it would take to build my own. I already have some ideas for modifications to make to it. I need to make friends with someone who has welding space, tools, and skills! I make good cookies and I am a dog trainer, so if someone wanted either of those in exchange would be alright as well!

-Cheri

[rickairmed]

Cheri look into your local trade schools and comunity colleges and see if they have welding courses . Thats a good way to learn and if its a night type class they will usually let you bring in your own projects and help you with them :D. I would say if you were closer you would be welcome to come over and learn here but I am much closer to Cinci. than Columbus although we have freinds up that way. I lived in Greensprings ( Upper sandusky ) for about 6 months way to cold up there for me :D.

Rick

[greenevegiebeast]

cheri, none of us were born with the inate knologe of how to fuse two peices of metal together. so, mentor we will. Harass we will. Encorage , oh yess we will.

Welcome young jedi zombie, we will teach you to weild the farce